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A piscivore (/ ˈ p ɪ s ɪ v ɔːr /) is a carnivorous animal that primarily eats fish. The name piscivore is derived from Latin piscis 'fish' and vorō 'to devour'. Piscivore is equivalent to the Greek-derived word ichthyophage , both of which mean "fish eater".
Along with the species of the Hypostomus cochliodon group (formerly the genus Cochliodon), it has been argued that Panaque are the only fish that can eat and digest wood. [5] Possible adaptations to consuming wood include spoon-shaped, scraper-like teeth and highly angled jaws to chisel wood. [ 5 ]
Algivore: eating algae (both macroalgae and microalgae) Phytoplanktonivore: eating phytoplankton; Omnivore: the eating of both plants, animals, fungi, bacteria etc. The term means "all-eater". By amount of meat in diet Hypercarnivore: more than 70% meat; Mesocarnivore: 30–70% meat; Hypocarnivore: less than 30% meat; Fungivore: the eating of ...
A red fox (Vulpes vulpes) eating a rodent—an example of a mesocarnivoreNot to be confused with mesopredator A mesocarnivore is an animal whose diet consists of 30–70% meat with the balance consisting of non-vertebrate foods which may include insects, fungi, fruits, other plant material and any food that is available to them. [1]
Seal meat is an important source of food for residents of small coastal communities. [19] Meat is sold to the Asian pet food market; in 2004, only Taiwan and South Korea purchased seal meat from Canada. [20] The seal blubber is used to make seal oil, which is marketed as a fish oil supplement.
Worker termite. Xylophagy is a term used in ecology to describe the habits of an herbivorous animal whose diet consists primarily (often solely) of wood.The word derives from Greek ξυλοφάγος (xulophagos) "eating wood", from ξύλον (xulon) "wood" and φαγεῖν (phagein) "to eat", an ancient Greek name for a kind of a worm-eating bird.
Pescetarianism (/ ˌ p ɛ s k ə ˈ t ɛər i. ə n ɪ z əm / PESK-ə-TAIR-ee-ə-niz-əm; sometimes spelled pescatarianism) [1] is a dietary practice in which seafood is the only source of meat in an otherwise vegetarian diet. [2]
A freshwater aquatic food web. The blue arrows show a complete food chain (algae → daphnia → gizzard shad → largemouth bass → great blue heron). A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.